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Security without intruding on the freedoms that we all enjoy. because as you pointed out, there are a long time it was complacency is our worst enemy but you also have to be vigilant yet you want people to live the lives that you live in america. how did you balance that? >> the first decision on calm was made in the classroom. i was in a classroom maybe just a little bigger than this instead of having three tv cameras there might have been 20. theres a lot. theres a huge press contingent coming...

Through the cold war. battlefields have changed and technology has evolved, but our commitment to constitutional principles as weathered every war, and every war has come to an end. with the collapse of the berlin wall, a new dawn of democracy took hold abroad. and a decade of peace and prosperity arrived here at home for a moment it seemed the 21st century would be a tranquil time. then on september 11th, 2001, we were shaken out of complacency. thousands were taken from us as clouds of fire an...

Twilight struggle of the cold war. battle fields have changed and technology has evolved, but our commitment to constitutional principles has weathered every war. and every war has come to an end. and with the collapse of the berlin wall a new dawn of democracy took hold abroad. and a decade of peace and prosperity arrived here at home. and for a moment, it seemed the 21st century would be a tranquil time. and then on september 11th, 2001, we were shaken out of complacency. thousands were taken ...

Calling all of these events, whether the marathon bombing or explosion in west texas last month, or we keep referring to them as wake-up calls. assuming they would be lessons learned and we act on them and bake it better the next time. but we treat them more like snooze alarms. we get aroused with the drama, then we hit the button and slip back no a state of complacency. which in long-term is not a good way to operate. we need to take these lessons very seriously, then follow up. we just experie...

About a 50% to 60% cutback in disaster preparedness funding for communities and states from dollars that are coming from the federal government. so we have a lot of work to do. this is, again, a wake-up call. i hope it doesnt turn into a snooze alarm. you know, where were excited and obviously concerned about the high drama of this event and that we dont just fall back into a state of complacency in the next weeks. but we really have to stay with this and make sure that never again will we leave...

Congress blocked president obamas official policy on gitmo, which is to transfer some detainees to maximum security facilities in the united states. there are 86 detainees of the 166 cleared for transfer to a detention facility in another nation. congress has restricted such transfers. however, congress has also granted the pentagon the powers to waive such restriction, a power the pentagon has not yet used in a single case. so as the president called everyone on the carpet for their complacency...

Power the pentagon has not yet used in a single case. so as the president called everyone on the carpet for their complacency today, he also raised the question whether his administration will try to do more within its power to get at least some of these detainees out of guantanamo. >> im going to go back at this. ive asked my team to review everything thats currently being done in guantanamo, everything that we can do administratively, and im going to reengage with congress to try to make the c...

Complacency. theyre doing long term thinking here. that is something we need to consider when the home frant has become the battlefield. >> i think you look at syria and its one of those problems from hell. its not clear that any of the solutions that john mccain is pushing, you know, no fly zones, safe zones, bombing attacks on syrian regime sites. its not clear that is going to help as more weapons have poured into the country more, much more of a militaryian conflict and less of a civilian up...

We dont know what happened yet. thats why we want to get to the bottom of it, asking secretary napolitano, director muller and others questions about what happened and how we didnt follow up with that russian information. we have to follow leads. but there are many, many leads that these task forces receive. the question is how are we handling those leads. >> youre going to be talking to secretary napolitano, who still maintains, as does the obama administration, that for example, the fort hood ...

My view is, gregg, complacency is a killer. gregg: well, i wonder if there is a mentality that is pervasive in the administration in which they are very reluctant to name things acts of terrorism, although they certainly did so immediately in boston. for example, theyre quick to use the terms lone wolf, self-radicalized, bin laden is dead, gm is alive. to this day they refuse to declare the fort hood shooting anymore than a work place act of violence. >> yeah, i mean this is, this is wrong and y...